hung up the helmet to move into a full-time TV commentary role next season.<\/a><\/p>\nTander has in recent years mixed co-driving duties with the role of analyst on the broadcasts.<\/p>\n
The 48-year-old has gone out a winner, having lifted the Peter Brock Trophy alongside Matt Payne last month at Mount Panorama.<\/p>\n
\u201cEven when I went to Bathurst this year, even before the cars had even ran, I basically went as though I\u2019m enjoying it as if it\u2019s my last one,\u201d said Tander on Fox Sports.<\/p>\n
\u201cSo, I took every aspect of it in as though you\u2019re enjoying it for the last time.<\/p>\n
\u201cI hadn\u2019t fully made my mind up at that point, but it was great to have the kids there, to have Sian (Allison), my partner, there, to enjoy that moment.<\/p>\n
\u201cAnd obviously when we won, it was like \u2018This is quite cool, this is really enjoyable\u2019.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt was a nice fitting way to say that\u2019s it, done and dusted.\u201d<\/p>\n
Despite the win, Tander said his final decision wasn\u2019t made until the weeks after the race.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s not totally a mic drop,\u201d said Tander.<\/p>\n
\u201cA few journos in the Sunday night press conference were going \u2018I was expecting you to do the mic drop thing\u2019, but you don\u2019t make big decisions in those moments.<\/p>\n
\u201cI never fully made the final decision until probably a week or two after Bathurst. I\u2019ve been really, really fortunate. Incredibly fortunate.<\/p>\n
\u201cI still remember as a 21-year-old kid qualifying 16th at Phillip Island, next to Dick Johnson, my very first ever race, stalling it on the grid and I was last to the first corner.<\/p>\n
\u201cNot a great start to my Supercars career, so to be able to end it like that with a win at Bathurst with Grove Racing is a much better way to finish it than the way we started.\u201d<\/p>\n
Tander said it was not a difficult decision to make.<\/p>\n
Three of his Bathurst 1000 wins came as a co-driver after unceremoniously concluding his full-time driving career with Garry Rogers Motorsport at the end of 2018.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m seven years in as a co-driver, and even when I started as a co-driver and I was at Triple Eight with Roland Dane, he said you\u2019ve got four years and that\u2019s it, you\u2019re no good after that,\u201d Tander recalled.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m really proud that in seven years as a co-driver, I won Bathurst three times with two different drivers and two different teams.<\/p>\n
\u201cPretty much everyone other than Shane (van Gisbergen) I shared with their first Bathurst win.<\/p>\n
\u201cObviously with Bargs (Jason Bargwanna) and myself it was both our first wins, with Will Davison, with Nick (Percat), with Shane, and now with Matt (Payne), to share their first wins and help them on their journey and wherever that may take them, I\u2019m proud of that.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m really proud of building teams and being part of teams. Certainly, over the last three years, it\u2019s been less about driving the car and more about building the people and building the team has been more enjoyable for me.<\/p>\n
\u201cDriving the car is still cool, it\u2019s still fun, you still enjoy it, and I\u2019ll probably still do it at some stages, jumping in for a ride day here and there, but I\u2019m 48 now. I always said if I get north of 40 when I was young\u2026 I\u2019ll be happy with that.\u201d<\/p>\n
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